1st Edition

Community Health Systems In The Rural American South Linking People And Policy

By Carole E Hill Copyright 1988
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

A cultural perspective of health care systems can provide health care providers and policymakers with a broader understanding of the issues they face when planning and implementing new health programs in communities. Healthcare tales place in a community setting while health care policy is developed at an entirely different level in the larger socioeconomic system. In this study the author... Read more
l Culture, Health, and Policy In the Rural South 2 A Rural Community Within the Regional Context 3 Alternative Illness Behavior and Decision Making 4 Family, Community, and Mental Health 5 Popular Medicine, Health Beliefs, and Cultural Models 6 Linking Community to the Health Policy Systems 7 Health Policy as a Cultural System 8 The Convergence and Divergence of People and Policy

Biography

Carole E. Hill